Dolittle Documentation

Rule Context

The context in which a rule or rule set gets evaluated is called a rule context. This object holds information about the owning instance in which the context is for - typically an object that might have a value there are rules for. This is flexible and represents what you consider the owner of the context.

More importantly, the rule context holds any broken rules as a consequence of the fail() method being called on the context.

The fail method has the following signature:

fail(rule: IRule, subject: any, cause: Cause): void;

Used in a rule with a concrete reason to get a cause from:

import { IRule, IRuleContext, Reason } from '@dolittle/rules';

class MyRule implements IRule {
    static Reason ValueIsNotFortyTwo = Reason.create('4b99af88-09c0-4342-8876-24c42a48d728', 'Value should be forty two');

    evaluate(context: IRuleContext, subject: any): void {
        const value = subject as Number;

        if (value != 42) {
  , subject, MyRule.ValueIsNotFortyTwo.noArguments());